"Tore It Up": Mumbai Mayor Rejects Civic Body Report On Chembur Tree Collapse
Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde has rejected a municipal report that cleared city officials of negligence in a tree collapse incident that killed an 11-year-old boy. She has ordered a re-enquiry and criticized the proposed compensation as inadequate.
Why it matters
The incident raises questions about urban infrastructure safety, municipal accountability, and the adequacy of victim compensation in India's major cities.
Rejecting the report on the Mumbai tree collapse, which killed an 11-year-old boy, Mayor Ritu Tawde on Friday said that she has asked the authorities to conduct a re-enquiry into the incident. Tawde added that she "tore up" the report."We unanimously yesterday in Corporation rejected the report of the administration. We have torn the copy of the report and have asked the administration to conduct a re-enquiry and also to include two Corporators in the panel to probe it again," Tawde said.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) held the contractors accountable and gave a clean-chit to its own officials.Vihaan Srivastav was killed on June 30 when a huge tree fell on his school bus in Chembur.The student's father, Gaurav Srivastav, in an interview to NDTV on Thursday, said,"We are hoping that there is dissatisfaction with the outcome of the report and there will be a re-inquiry which will be fair, transparent, and…
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